Nantucket Basket Purse Cherry Wood Lighthouse Scrimshaw
Exquisite Nantucket Lightship Basket Purse with cherry wood rims and a traditional black and white scrimshaw plaque, entirely hand-woven and hand-crafted of natural rattan cane basketweaving materials with a cherry wood base, lid, swing handle and basket rims. This smaller size Nantucket basket purse lends itself to more formal occasions.
This finely hand-crafted Nantucket Basket Purse features 79 hand-tapered and beveled rattan cane staves, each deeply inserted into the oval hardwood cherry wood base. Tightly woven in Nantucket-grade cane, with cherry hardwood basketry rims. The woven top of this Nantucket Basket Purse also features hand-tapered and beveled rattan reed staves and the traditional tight Nantucket-grade cane weaving.
The woven Nantucket basket purse lid features an oval scrimshaw plaque, done by hand in traditional black and white, featuring a lighthouse on a headland with a tall ship.
The hardwood cherry wood rims have been steam-bent and scarf to a perfect fit, then nailed with thin brass pins and single lashed in cane, with an additional piece of hand-formed cane used to cover the slim gap between the inside and outside rims. As a finishing touch, an additional piece of cane was used below the outside rims of the basket body.
The closure loop and back hinges are sturdy cane-wrapped leather and have been nailed with thin brass nails.
The cherry hardwood Nantucket basket purse swing handle is attached to the cherry basketry rims with a brass handle pin, and a set of synthetic bone knobs and washers. The synthetic bone closure peg is attached to the rims. A light finish of shellac has been applied to this Nantucket basket purse to seal, protect, strengthen and bring out the beauty of the natural weaving materials.
This lovely traditional Large Nantucket Lightship Basket Purse measures 10" (knob to knob), 6.25" front to back, 4.75" tall to the rims, 6.25" tall to the top of the basket purse lid and 10.5" tall to the top of the basket handle in the upright position. Crafted in 2007 by Kathleen Becker - Simply Baskets. You can read more about the history of Nantucket Baskets and Nantucket Lightship Basket Purses here.
SB676 - Nantucket Basket Purse Cherry Wood Lighthouse Scrimshaw
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